DIV and <!-- in the code

How is this code treated

[Voyteck]

Hello

How would be this code trated as Google and Inktomi?

<div style="position:absolute; visibility: hidden">keyword1, keyword2 and so on</div>

<!--keyword1, keyword2 and so on -->

Page has a PR of 4 so I think it is not yet considered as spam and definately boost position with on of local search engines based on Inktomi.

What are your opinions?

Regards

Voyteck

[Yidaki]

Useless. Why hide?

[Voyteck]

Why not? And this gives probably higher ranking with Inktomi based SE.

Because this way I can stick 50 keywords. The site still is positioned for 3-4 keywords but getting also some traffic for other less important search phrases.

But the question is: Do you think it would be penalized especially by Google.

With regards

Voyteck

[metrostang]

I found one of my competitors placing above me for what I thought was a less relevent page. I searched his source code for the words showing in his listing and found them in <div=**** table. They showed nowhere on his visable page.

I found the code in a search for "search engine tricks" and found advice to adult webmasters on how to pad their keywords this way.

If the keywords are appropriate for the site, why not use them in the title, anchor text, etc. There are those here with more knowledge and experience than me who can comment, but I thought it was wrong and I suspect Google probably does also. Is the result any different than using text the same color as the background?

CSS is new to me, so if I misunderstood the question, please ignore the above.

[edit_g]

Google doesn't place much (read: any) weight on comments in the html (for obvious reasons).

I'd just try to stick to visible things unless you're creating some sort of menu. Something so blatant would also fail miserably any human review. This technique wasn't even that clever back in 1999...

[metrostang]

In the instance I mentioned, maybe there was another reason for the sites high placement for the 2 keywords, possibly stemming played a part.

G listed the table contents with keywords highlighted on the search page, so it appears G recognized it. That was also the only occurance of both words in the page or code, so it maybe it still works.

The table was removed a few days later, but the site still ranks high with the same words used for the listing. It will be interesting to see where the site ranks after it's indexed again.